Day 16 An early start for Matt and Tommy who completely emptied the car out and left to find trailer hopefully not in flames and intact! Lil, Cam,Stu and I guiltily enjoyed a breakfast at the lodge- it has the strangest European alpine decor in middle of outback yet it felt just right! If you just changed the bright orangey red colour of the mountains just across the river from the lodge to dark rocky outcrops with patches of snow, would be none the wiser! We sp...

Day 15 - A smoothish start to the day with a pretty good checkout time for us 9am - yeah! Matt still unimpressed but am sure we’ll get there eventually! Driving to Kings Canyon we saw the same trees - Desert Oaks and Eucalypts but way more established and thicker scrub. Pretty impressive ridge lines came up on horizon as we got closer. Wish I had a pocket geologist to explain to us all the rock formations and their origins, best we can do is stare and wonder! ...

A stunning morning viewing of the Olgas as sun came up. A very majestic spiritual place of many colours. Freeeezing, we were there from 6:20, sun up around 7, temp dropped to 2deg ❄️ all very glad we bought thermals coats and beanies. Won’t be needing any of those in a week’s time but that’s irrelevant now! Kids not used to hearing the kaleidoscope of accents encountered when you share a major landmark with international tourists, nb must have a chat ab...

Travel day to Uluru from Alice. Had to get up early as tyre dude came to look at trailer at 8am- which is my usual get up time these days ☺️ too dark and cold otherwise.... sure that will change the further north we go. Kids grumpy they had to help packup trailer etc, downside of being across road from kids’ playground is they can see what they’re missing out on. We’re almost at the two week mark, was hoping for a little more harmony than what we are c...

‘Rest’ day in Alice, poor Matty rushing around getting windscreen fixed and spending afternoon under the trailer. Kids and I alternated between trying to get some work done and jumping on the air pillow....,alright it was tackle run across ☺️ with a few mates they’ve picked up here. They spent an hour in pool on water slide, was absolutely freezing but that appeared to be no deterrent. After that we caught up with the gorgeous Rachel D in at Eddie’s...